Christianity’s triumph over pagan culture: Then in a land of idols and now in the ‘post-Christian era’

Christianity’s triumph over pagan culture: Then in a land of idols and now in the ‘post-Christian era’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 21, 2026 Excerpted from a sermon by Bradly J Helgerson Richard Fletcher, in his book The Barbarian Conversion, traces the way Christians evangelized pagan cultures from A.D. 500-1500. At the beginning of that campaign major swaths of Europe remained pre-Christian pagan (i.e. they were barbarians). Conversion then (as Fletcher notes), often […]